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Herend Porcelain Factory
The Herend Porcelain Factory has been producing Hungary’s finest handpainted chinaware for over 180 years. Initially it specialised in copying and replacing the nobles’ broken chinaware settings imported from Asia. To avoid bankruptcy in the 1870s, the factory began mass production
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Basilica
Chapter Hill (Káptalan-domb), the oldest part of the city, is criss-crossed with quiet cobbled streets and tight alleyways and dominated by the Basilica, with foundations dating back to the 11th century. Over the ensuing centuries the religious centre of Győr gained an amalgam of s
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Hadas District
From Hősök tere, a short distance southwest of Szent László tér, enter any of the small streets running southward to dicover Hadas district, a completely different world of thatched and whitewashed cottages. Interesting lanes to stroll along are Patkó köz, Kökény köz and Mogyoró kö
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Esztergom Basilica
The basilica, the largest church in Hungary, is on Castle Hill, and its 72m-high central dome can be seen for many kilometres around. The building of the present neoclassical church was begun in 1822 on the site of its 12th-century counterpart destroyed by the Turks. József Hild, w
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Hortobágy National Park
With its varied terrain and water sources, the patchwork Hortobágy National Park has some of the best bird-watching in Europe. Indeed, some 340 species (of the Continent’s estimated 400) have been spotted here in the past 20 years, including many types of grebe, heron, shrike, egre
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Raoul Wallenberg Memorial
A statue called the Serpent Slayer in honour of Raoul Wallenberg by Pál Pátzay stands in XIII Szent István Park. Of all the righteous gentiles honoured by Jews around the world, the most revered is Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat and businessman who rescued as many as 35,000
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Gödöllő Royal Palace
The Royal Palace was designed by Antal Mayerhoffer for Count Antal Grassalkovich (1694–1771), confidante of Empress Maria Theresa, in 1741. After the formation of the Dual Monarchy, the palace was enlarged as a summer retreat for Emperor Franz Joseph, and soon became the favoured r
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Nádasdy Castle & Ferenc Nádasdy Museum
Sárvár’s main sight is the pentagonal Nádasdy Castle that dominates the town, reachable by a low bridge across a dry moat. The palatial interior of the Ferenc Nádasdy Museum was the venue for some of the grisly murders committed in the 17th century by Erzsébet Báthory – the wife of
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Royal Palace
The former Royal Palace has been razed and rebuilt at least half a dozen times over the past seven centuries. Béla IV established a royal residence here in the mid-13th century, and subsequent kings added to the structure. The palace was levelled in the battle to rout the Turks in
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Pannonhalma Abbey
Not even the power of Stalin could shut down the Pannonhalma Abbey, and today it still functions as a monastery. Additionally, it runs one of the best secondary schools in the country, founded in 1802.After buying your ticket at the reception building opposite the car park and watc
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Thermae Maiores Baths Museum
Built in the 2nd century AD for the Roman garrisons stationed at Aquincum, these baths featured a gymnastics hall, sweat rooms and hot and cold pools.
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Csontváry Museum
The Csontváry Museum shows the major works of master 19th-century symbolist painter Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry (1853–1919), whose tragic life is sometimes compared with that of his contemporary, Vincent van Gogh. Dont miss Solitary Cedar and Baalbek .
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Hercules Villa
Hercules Villa, in the middle of a vast housing estate northwest of Fő tér, is the name given to some reconstructed Roman ruins. The name is derived from the astonishing 3rd-century floor mosaics of Hercules’ exploits found in what was a Roman villa. Phone in advance; visits are us
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Hungarian Museum of Trade & Tourism
One of our favourite small museums in Budapest, this unusual one looks at the catering and hospitality trade, with restaurant items, tableware, advertising posters, packaging and original shop signs. Go upstairs for an intimate look at the lives of various tradespeople – from baker
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Vasarely Museum
Installed in the imposing Zichy Mansion (Zichy kastély) built in 1757, this museum contains the works of Victor Vasarely (or Vásárhelyi Győző as he was known before he emigrated to Paris in 1930), the late ‘father of op art’. The works, especially Keek and Ibadan-Pos, are excellent
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Storno Collection
The Storno Collection is on the 2nd floor of Storno House , home to the Swiss-Italian family of Ferenc Storno, chimney sweep turned art restorer, whose recarving of Romanesque and Gothic monuments throughout Transdanubia divides opinion to this day. The collections highlights inclu
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Iseum
Once part of a grand 2nd-century complex of two temples dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis by Roman legionnaires (one of only three in Europe), Iseum was completely restored in 2011. The adjacent U-shaped hall makes a grand new home for the archaeological discoveries made at th
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Mosque Church
The one-time Pasha Gazi Kassim Mosque is now the Inner Town Parish Church (Belvárosi plébánia templom), but its more commonly referred to as the Mosque Church. It is the largest building from the time of the Turkish occupation still standing in Hungary and the very symbol of Pécs.
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Eger Castle
Climb up cobbled Vár köz from Dózsa György tér to reach Eger Castle, erected in the 13th century after the Mongol invasion. Models and drawings in the István Dobó Museum , housed in the former Bishop’s Palace (1470), painlessly explain the history of the castle. The Eger Art Galler
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Festetics Palace
The glimmering white, 100-room Festetics Palace was begun in 1745; the two wings were extended out from the original building 150 years later. Some 18 rooms in the baroque south wing now contain the Helikon Palace Museum . Here too is the palace’s greatest treasure, the Helikon Lib
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